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Originally Posted by LaurenBledsoe
honey, the problem wasn't that people disagreed. the problem was that it was changed. that is censoring.
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That's a pretty broad ranging view of censorship to say the least. You've implied that you're entitled to free speech as an unconditional enforcement on everyone else. You're not. You never were. Firstly eskimofriends isn't an American website, it's Irish, we have differing civil restrictions regarding defamation and racism.
Secondly, eskimofriends isn't your property, you don't pay the bandwidth charges, you don't maintain it, and I'm going to hazard a guess that you haven't pitched in with donations. Admin and Wheels pick up the bill on this place, on this website you have no legal or civil right to say anything that breaks the rules they've set. It's their property and as such they have the right to do whatever they want with it. That includes deleting the kind of racist crap that you seem to think is okay.
If you wake up in the morning, and someone has spray-painted a swastika on your front door, would painting over it be censorship? Your rationale seems to suggest that it would. Does keeping it there serve a higher moral purpose in defence of the civil right to say whatever you want, is that civil right more valuable then the one that states that people can go about their lives without being afraid of socially acceptable racism?